- Lizarralde, Gonzalo, Cassidy Johnson, and Colin H. Davidson. Rebuilding after Disasters: from Emergency to Sustainability. London: Spon, 2010. Print
- Gonzalo Lizarralde is an expert in project management, architecture and low-cost housing. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. He is the founding member of i-R (Information and Research for Reconstruction).
- The main argument of this text is that natural events such as earthquakes, flood, hurricanes, etc become disasters because of the fragile relations that exist between natural, human, and built environments. So intuitively the most devastating disaster will occur in regions with poor natural, human, and built environments.
- The main argument is fleshed out using historical evidence of past disasters. With first-hand accounts, research trips, and observations of different disaster in different regions, the team of authors have compiled an effective kindof guideline on how to rebuild sustainably.
- (a) “The majority of the most devastating…disasters will occur in cities of the developing world.” (b) “This book [is built] upon how things are actually done and how doing them can be improved within the real constraints and challenges that are common both to the building industry and the humanitarian/development sector.” (c) “The prevailing state of emergency [after a disaster] challenges thoughtful and sustainable planning and construction.”
- This book parallels my argument that there are environmental and culture factors that facilitate the severity of a natural event.
- The argument of the text was the original inspiration behind this matrix idea. And also, many quotes and ides were used in my post.
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